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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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1. Rotary electrostatic precipitator — Shao Lee Soo, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering, Urbana, inventor. This device consists of electrodes and collector plates mounted in a drum on a rotating wheel. The passages of dusty gas to be cleaned and the passages for the cleaning of the collector plates are separated by seals over the drum. The collector passages alternately pass between these sectors to collect dust and to be cleaned. T h e Committee recommends that a 20 per cent distribution of net income be made to the inventor. (The Board of Trustees approved assignment of the rights in this invention to the University of Illinois Foundation on January 12, 1967.) 2. Transmitter and receiver for the transmission of computer (digital) data over standard commercial television channels — John E. Stifle, Senior Research Engineer at the Coordinated Science Laboratory and Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, Urbana; Donald L. Bitzer, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and Director of the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory; and Michael Johnson, Electronics Technician at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Urbana, inventors; developed under the sponsorship of the Joint Services Electronics Program. Because digital information is binary in nature, only two voltage levels are needed to represent a bit of digital information. In the system described here one voltage level is chosen as the black (blanking) level and the other as the white level. Each horizontal scanning line in the television field is divided into 100 time bins of .01H seconds each ( H = 1/15750 seconds). The first 16 bins of each line are used for horizontal synchronization and blanking purposes. The remaining 84 bins along a line each contain one bit of digital information. Field tests indicate that better than 7225 fields are transmitted correctly for every field with errors. The number of bits in error in a bad field is generally less than 250. T h e Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be assigned to the University of Illinois Foundation for study and possible patent application, subject to the rights of the sponsor. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e m e n t , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . EMPLOYMENT O F SPECIAL COUNSEL (ESTATE OF EUGENE S. BOERNER) (44) At the time of his death in 1966, Eugene S. Boerner held title to certain stock in Jackson and Perkins Company subject to an executed contract of sale. In his will Mr. Boerner directed that this stock, or the proceeds from the sale thereof, be distributed as follows: 80 per cent to Cornell University and 20 per cent to the University of Illinois. The Lincoln Rochester Trust Company has filed its proposed final report as Executor of the Estate of Eugene S. Boerner, and is seeking the approval of that report and its discharge as Executor of the estate. Certain transactions during the administration of the estate,with respect to the sales agreement require full exposition and it is in order for the University to file formal objections in the New York court with reference to the proposed final report. The Vice President and Comptroller and the University Counsel recommend that the University Counsel be authorized to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the University's interests in the estate. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e m e n t , t h e B o a r d a d j o u r n e d .

EARL W. PORTER E A R L M. HUGHES

Secretary

President

LUNCHEON GUESTS Some thirty-five members of the faculty and student body from the Urbana-Champaign campus were guests of the Board at lunch.